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Man accused of leaving scene of accident

An Avant man was being held on bond following his arrest for a vehicle accident in October.

Michael Dale Nelson, 28, faces charges of leaving the scene of an injury accident after former conviction of a felony.

According to the case’s probable cause affidavit, the accident happened around 7:55 p.m. Oct. 15, when Oklahoma Highway Patrol Troopers responded to an accident near Highway 11 and North 4080 Drive. OHP troopers say they found a gray Monte Carlo that had departed the road to the right and had hit a cable box before hitting a ditch and a tree.

Officials were able to determine that Nelson had been the driver of the car and that he had fled on foot following the accident, reports indicate.

A short time later, officers reportedly met with a woman at Hillcrest Medical Center in Tulsa, who said that she had been in the vehicle at the time of the accident. She said that “she was abducted at her work by Nelson” and confirmed that he had been driving at the time of the crash, the affidavit states. She said he was “driving at a high rate of speed” and told her, “We are both going to die tonight” prior to the accident. She later reportedly picked Nelson out of a photo line up.